Quick question ..

[carlozWDS]

I wanna setup a private wlan using a PicoStation5 as my base station to serve about 25 clients for pure gaming and filesharing, No internet. I will have clear LOS from all angles and the farthest clients are way less than half mile away from base station. For the CPE thinking of using loco5's. If i can get all clients with a signal of -70 or less how much bandwidth can each client get to the gaming servers and the filesharing servers behind the base station ? Also is the traffic shaping on airos for internet connectivity only or is it for wireless speed ? depend on your answers and if this sis doable I`ll be adding ps5 ext with sectors to the mix to support more clients later. I choose 5ghz because the area is saturated with 2.4ghz from residential users and business. Any help/suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks in advanced.

[UBNT-Mike.Ford]

Hello,

With a -70 signal a each client and 25 concurrent connections, each unit would have less then 1Mbps. Please bear in mind that 802.11 protocol is limited to about 25Mbps TCP/IP TOTAL throughput.

Thanks,

Mike

[carlozWDS]

thanks for the reply mike. So in order to be able to give the user more bandwidth I should just lower the user count to about 15 to AP and just add more AP into the mix. Well since ubiquiti products are well spoken for and are really affordable it shouldn't be hard to accomplish this with your product.

what about the traffic shaping feature ? does it shape internet speed only or does it shape wireless speed ?

[UBNT-Mike.Ford]

Hello,

Yes this is correct. If you need more bandwidth, then limiting the number of AP's and decreasing the client count per AP is the way to go.

Also, the traffic shaping we use limits the bandwidth going over the ethernet port on the unit only.

Thanks,

Mike

[carlozWDS]

Thanks mike.

[rconaway]

What about using 3 radios for the base station location and spittling the users up. That would give 3Mbps per user.